User blog comment:MentalZ/Valentine's Day/@comment-1399757-20110213194823

@MZ: I agree with you mostly. Most, if not all holidays have evolved into temporal, materialist "celebrations", but that doesn't mean we have to mope about it or say to heck with it all. If holidays do mean anything to us we can surpass the politically-correct bull-crap and celebrate them the way they were meant to be celebrated. You just have to lead by example. The mainstream media can have it's secular, dumpy version of "holiday", we get them the way they matter, and if other people don't like it it's no skin off of our noses that they are offended by something that's contrary to their preference. They can bawl their eyes out for all I care, it's a free country :P

You can still celebrate a holiday for what it is and go along with the modern traditions as well though, but just don't let those get in the way of the true meaning. I still think, despite the origins of the holidays, that it's fine to buy chocolates or send a card to someone on Valentine's Day, or to buy more than 3 presents per person on Christmas, or to go trick-or-treating on Halloween, or to get candy on Easter, as long as you set that stuff as second priority.